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In Letter to Members of the Union He Advises
Them to Fight Shy of the Wily Gents Who
Have Axes to Grind.
To Officials and Members of
the Farmers' Inion.: In the nVrn
years 1 have been identified with
the Farmers' Inion, most of the
time as head of the National Or
ganization, [ have traveled maiiv
thousands of miles, visited prac
tically every State in the I'nion
addressed hundreds of meetings
and vast numbers of people, have
come intimately in contact wjit.h
farmers of all sorts and condi
tions, and I give it my matured
judgment that the thing most the
matter with men who till the soil
is the ease with which they are
fooled.
And, unhappily, he is fooled
ninety-nine times out of a hun
dred by tin* fellow wiith an axe
to grind. He who ownes the axe
puts you at the grindstone handle
and tells you to turn, mayhap
making some vague promise of
reward. And you trusting and
hopeful, turn and turn until yom
hack is aching, your hands blis
tered and sore. Alter awhile the
axe gets a sharp edge and you
are told to go your way, as the
axe-owner has no further use for
you. You insist on your promised
reward. He's amazed at your cred
ulity and wonders when? you got
the impression of anything for
your good offices.
Ho you gulp down your dissa
pointment, r, *h your aching hack,
grease your blistered hands and
swear you’ll never trust another
one of ’em, so help you. And you
4?o away breathing fire and venge
an.ce. Presently the next smooth
guy conies along, smiles upon you
pats you upon the weary old Intel
makes a lot of fresh and hollow
promises and you grab the grind
atone handle and go at it for deai
life. And the fellow getting tin
edge on his axe, grinds shyly to
himself, and thinks what an easy,
gullible, eredulus, unthinking old
simpleton you are.
Now this may sound like pretty
liarse ae,elisions.hut 1 make them
after matured refleet ions and in
absolute certainly that no living
man refute them successfully.
You know me well enought by
now to understand that I don't
soft-soap, trim, quibble, or dodge.
I have the deep-grained and old
fashion idea of calling a spade
by its right name. I don't believe
in darning with faint, praise; 1
don believe in avoiding the wit
pleasant things if they tire neces
sary to handle for the ultimate
good.
So 1 want to lambast you a haul
this grievious, tormenting trait
of character you so unhappily
possess- believeing tin* tricksters,
the man with tin* axe to grind,tin
mean, selfish man who pats you
"With one hand ami robs you with
the other. Heaven knows,l don”t
want to make you a pessimist to
any greater extent than you are
but I want you to use your intel
ligence in learning tin* difference
between your real friend and tin
chap who fools you only for his
own selfish ends.
The difficulty lies largely in tin*
fact the sort fooling you is sinoot!
plain ible, smiling, genial. It is
h's stock in trade. He tells you of
Ids profound interest in v.our wel
fare his sleepless nights, and m u
tnl travail in studying out your
problems, and, having minted tin
out of his brain agony, he comes
to offer them as your s-dvath n.
,He m k *s you a beautiful e leech,
fairly dripping with homy ami.
golden promises. All necessary foi
your complete and absolute email
cipation is to listen, heed, act.
And you listen, heed, act, and
find indeed that it is a wonderful
scheme- for tin* man who present
it, but worse than nothing to you
and your well-being.
My dear brother, when will yor
put the boot to this type of a
| scoundrel 1 Legislative halls arc.
j filled with them, the kind who
use you for his own purpose and
forget you as soon as the returns
are counted. IIoW long, Oh Lord,
how long, will you continue t<
thus blindly boost that rascal's
game 1
As I have said repeatedly, I am
normally and naturally an optimi
tic, hut sometimes I butt my head
into this wall and almost despair
of your ever waking up. Over an.
over the trick victimizes you, and
no ripened knowledge of caution
comes of your experience. Yoi
only feel hope and courage sink
to the vanishing point. Yet, my
brother, you are in a measure
to blame for your predicament.
In this day when progress
marches swiftly and surely to def
nite goals; when big forces com
bine in purposeful and genuine
wprk of uplifting humanity in
broad arid sincere way; when the
drone, tin* vagabond, tin* trick
ster, the ingrate are being crowd
ed out are you to be kliowta as
| last and sole easy victim of self
ish rascality?
Wake up my friends and show
tlie world you know your true
friends, and can tell a schemer
I who wants to use you for self-
I isli intents. We an* going to see
some of these selfish kind out at
the old tricks next year. They are
going to make you all .of the
dlo-time pre-election promises, im
plore to stand to them just this
otui time and proof will be forth
coming of deap seated interest
in you and your affairs Art
you going to be fooled again
Not if I can help it; not if 1 can
show you the difference between
tilt 1 worthy and the unworthy, the
real man and the sycophant wlitli
his cunning, plausible, empty,
promises.
Read and think this over a lit
tle. 1 want it to soak in.Then per
haps I'll hit you with some sledgt
hammer facts. f
C. HL BARRETT.
l T ni< n City, (la., .June 11, 195.
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of medicine goes farther
than a bushel of food, for
sickness in stock and poul
try. When you need a med-
icine to act quickly and
v/ork thoroughly, try
Bee Dee
STOCK & POULTRY MEDICINE
It is all medicine, no
food. A\ade from pure con
centrated medicinal herbs,
of true curative merit It
acts quickly and drives out
disease poisons. Try it
Price 25c, 50c and $l.OO per can. **
“11 is excellent (o prevent disease and
as a tonic ior poultry."—Ella Burroughs,
R. F. D. 3. Scottsboro, Ala.
P. A. 12
| should be "nipped in t!e
boci”, fer if allowed to run
unchecked, serious results
may follow. Numerous
cases of consumption, pneu
monia, and other fatal dis
eases, :an tc traced back to
a cold. At the first sign of a
cold, protect yourself by
thoroughly cleansing your
system with a few doses of
THEDFORD’S
BLACK
DRAUGHT
the old reliable, vegetable
liver powder.
Mr. Chas. A. Ragland, o*
Madison Heights. Va., says:
"1 have been using Thed
ford’s Black-Draught for
stomach troubles, indiges
tion and cclds. and find it tc
be the very best medicine 1
ever used. It makes an cld
man feel like a young one.”
Insist on Thedford’s, the
original and genuine. E-67
Where Our Mcney Goss.
From recent statistics, we learn
that Georgians now own more
than twenty thousand automobile
more than any southern state. Of
these machines have been pur
chased at an average cost of one
thousand dollars each, the sum
total amounts to twenty million
dollars that Georgians have in
vested in automobiles. But this is
not all. Commerce alone consumes
seven thousand gallons of gaso
line every month. Practically all
of tin’s is used in operating auto
mobiles. At 25 cents per gallon
the price paid, this town expends
the sum of .+1,750.(10 per month,
or .+21,000 annually for gasoline.
There are 818 towns and cities in
Georgia, and these have a total
population in round numbers, of
900,000. The average population
is in the neighborhood of 1.-
100, so that the average popula
tion of the Georgia cities and
towns is ust.j half that of Com
merce. If Commerce expends
+21,000.00 annually for gasoline,
as has been shown, and other
Georgia towns use it proportion
ately, then the people of this
state a,re spending annually f•
gasoline the immense sum of
$8,898,000.00 annually for
gas dine alone. But this is nof
all. The average upkeep of the
twenty thousand machines must
be in the neighborhood of SSO
per year. If so, we spend an ad
ditional one hundred thousand an
nually for repairs. When 1 does
all this money go? Every dol
lar of it leaves the state with tin*
exception of the one hundred
I thousand we spend for repairs,
land much of that leaves the state
for fixtures. The twenty million
j invested in the machines goes 1<
eastern factories. Tile nine mil
lion for gasoline goes into the
pocket of Mr. Rockefeller. Now
what do we get in return? Lit
tle lmt leaves. With these fads
staring us in the face, is it any
Wonder that money is scarce.
And remember the automobile is
hut one of the luxuries for which
wv* are spending so much money.
Commerce News.
Take Dr. M. A. Simmons Liv
er Medicine for heartburn, sour
I belching or constipation. It
cleanses and strengthens the liv
jer, stomach and bowels. Price
|25 ets. per package. K o ld bv Dr.
•J. T. Wages Drug Go.
“Tim G ;>?:<• la Crack'r an
j element in Southern lif *> whicl
i-anmk be ignored. The Or ? -*r
• ; the wjor i is shroud *d in : ‘story
tradition assigning it to the In *
whips carried by cattle d-'v-: ?r
the old days, which, with enor
mous crackers, gave the name 1
this class of men. The “Ciacker’’
t't,!e has been given by c minon
"nsnt to a class of people in
the country who, by the Way.
have made a succ* ss in the cot
ton factories and who compose
about the only reliable and skill
ful labor to be obtained. So en
tirely is this true that cotton
factories in localities where the
Cracker does not reside are far
from being a success. Happy is
the mill man who has been able
to secure this class .of labor. Tin
Cracker grows in Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama and the Carolinas.
From a distinctive class the
name has finally been given to
all pimple from the interior, es
pecially by seacoast cities, and
the city of Savannah, largely
built up by people from the up
country, h a s come to dub a part
ol its population as Georgia and
Florida Crackers. To this must
be added, of course, the North
Carolina Cracker, wjho came here
with the naval stores business:
wh.o has made good in his work,
and who has helped to make Sa
vannah prosper.
“But the Georgia Cracker is
shrewd, industrious, full of' hu
mor and courage, a trifle ungain
ly perhaps, but with the elements
of strong citizenship. The Crack
ers really drove the Cherokee?.
cut of Georgi a and insisted up
on settling on their land.. The
chief justice of the Georgia col
ony declared that the Crackers
came from the western parts o?
Virginia and North Carolina, and
predicted that they would in
time overrun the rich part of this
country The courts in the early
history addressed itself to this
Cracker element. Bill Arp sug
gested that the term “Cracker"
was a Scotch term, and was early
conferred on the rough and un
cultured men who came from
other colonies. The word is a
corruption of the term used an
ciently in Scotland to designate
a certain yeomanry, independent
as woodsawers, “who were obnox
ions to the aristocracy.”
“But in spite of chief justices
a nd governors, the Indian has
disappeared and the Cracker has
come to rule the country. The
name as a distinctive class has
finally lost all primeval signifi
cance, and in Savannah it has
come to refer to the natives of
the hill country and of the wire
grass who have flocked to this
city by the thousands and who in
many respects have changed iP
complexion and ruled its destiny.
Tin* Crackers were really tb<*
men who, starting in Liberty
county, insisted upon separation
from England in 177t>. The
mountain Crackers followed An
drew Jackson in the Rattle of
New Orleans in 1812; they were
back of Old Hickory when In*
wrested Florida from Spain and
forced the Cherokee and Creek
Indians back from Georgia. TJio
no slave-holders themselves, they
were among the best fighters in
the war for secession and swarm
ed into the regiments that enlist
ed during the Spanish-American
war. In times of peace they
pursue their way quietly, wheth
er their work consisted in run
ning a cotten factory, driving a
will call for it by that time. Please
1,.,ve it ready end where we can find
it. Should vie fail to find it l*e
and send it to Woodruff's
ctme with your name on it.
Shiit3 10 and 12 l-2c.
Colh.rs - - 2 l-2c
Cuffs - 4 and 5c
Spreads -10 c
Hubert Jacobs,
Winder, Ga.
Tombstones
I can save you money
on all grades or Tomb
stones. I have a plan by
which I can divide prof
its v/ith purchasers. Call
on or address
J. L. MARLOW,
WINDER, GA.
C. S. Hulls and Meal
I have just received a ear e>f meal
and hulls.
They are scarce and hard to get and
this will probably be the last car
that 1 can get. See me at once and
place your order before they are all
gone. Remember, my terms are
strictly cash.
C. C. GREGORY, Winder
NOTICE
To My Friends and Patrons
I take this method of thanking
you for your loyal support during
the term that has just closed, and
I solicit your patronage during the
summer months,promising you my
best efforts. 1 especially want
pupils who are not able to take
music along with their school work,
as they can give it all their time
now. If you want my special sum
mer rates, ring me at 199 or 85.
Yours truly,
W. E. Cot PER.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
G. A. JOHNS,
Attorney at Law.
Winder, Ga.
Office over Smith & Carithers’
Bank. Practice in all the courts
except City Court of Jefferson.
W. IL QUARTERMAN.
Attorney at Law
Winder, Ga.
Practice in all the Courts
Commercial law a specialty.
SPURGEON WILLIAMS
Dentist,
Winder, Georgia
Oil ice over Smith & Carithers
hank. All work done satisfac
torily, Phone 81.
W. L. DeLaPERRIERE
Dental Surgery.
Winder, Georgia
Fillings, Bridge and Plate-work
done in most scientific, and satis
factory way.
street car, presiding over a bank
or figuring in retail trade or real
[estate deals. Fop the Cracker is
thrifty and far-seeing. In peace
and in war he can be counted
upon to hold up his end of the
load. Asa rule he is a foe to
privilege of kinds, a demo
crat by nature. Whether he
fought the feudal chiefs in Scot
land. or the Tories in Virginia,
or tjhe protection barons in Amer
ica, the Cracker believes in his
soul the truth of the Declaration
of Independence, that all men are
created free and equal.”
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE P.ROMO Quinine. It stops the-
Cough and Headache and works off the Cold.
Druggists refund money if it faiis to cure.
E. W. UP.OVE’S signature on each box. 2k.